State Department Warns Mexican Drug Cartels May Target U.S. In Terrorist Acts

Friends of Ours ^ | 07/16/11 | Friends of Ours

[AtlasStalled]

The U.S. State Department warned yesterday that the Juarez Cartel may target its consulate office in Ciudad Juarez -- just over the border from El Paso, TX -- or other U.S. interests as reported by Mary Forgione for the Los Angeles Times. The "emergency message" states:

Information has come to light that suggests a cartel may be targeting the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez or U.S. Ports of Entry. In the past, cartels have been willing to utilize car bombs in attacks.

Earlier this month a drug cartel in Ciudad Juarez spray painted a public warning to U.S. DEA agents as reported by The Associated Press: "Gringos (D.E.A.). We know where you are and we know who you are and where you go. We are going to chop off your (expletive) heads."

The warnings are not idle. Last February ICE agent Jaime Zapata was killed and his partner wounded in a shooting ambush in the state of San Luis Potosí, and in March 2010 three Americans tied to the U.S. Consulate were killed in a shooting ambush in Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua.

Moreover, the Mexican drug cartels have murdered U.S. law enforcement officials on the north side of the border. In December 2010 border patrol agent Brian Terry was shot and killed after encountering several suspects in a southern Arizona smuggling corridor.

The drug smugglers rake in $50 billion a year by peddling their product throughout the United States, and they already have proven willing to kill anybody on either side of the border in protecting their racket.

And yet President Obama sees no need to secure the border, and no evidence of spillover violence.

[gundog]

They’re growing the crap on public land in Oregon and California, and they’re guarding it with “assault rifles.”

[JimRed]

We (and the Mexican authorities) know where these guys live. A little surveillance and a couple of Hellfires, problem solved. Collateral damage? Tough cookies; sleep with dogs, get fleas.

[Dr.Deth]

Does anyone think for a moment that Obama will allow this country to be deprived of cocaine?

[JimRed]

So, is that border fence done yet?...

Fence OK, but WALL much better. With mined approaches and motion activated robo weapons on our side.

[time4good]

when I said ‘sleeping giant’ - I wasn’t talking about the Eunuchs in Government - I was talking about the fed-up American people!!

[Venturer]

It’s time that Giant was awakened by our own Government..

It has been sleeping far too long.

[SwinneySwitch]

“The drug smugglers rake in $50 billion a year by peddling their product throughout the United States,”

From the Fox news videos, it looks like the auto union workers are consuming a lot of that on their smoke breaks. Don't they know smoking is hazerdous to our health?

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

[liberalh8ter]

Wouldn't it be fantastic if the State Department, rather than issuing these threat warnings, would work together with ICE and DHS to actually STOP the tide of illegal activity crossing our borders and infesting our neighborhoods?

I hate Obama, Napolitano and all the other worthless commies in our government.

[B4Ranch]

>>Yet protecting our borders is still a bridge too far.<<

Protecting our borders will shut down the drug trade. What do you do with the addicts?

[cripplecreek]

What do you do with the addicts?


Don't they tell us that its none of our business what they do with their own lives? I guess they'll suffer but that really isn't my problem.

[B4Ranch]

No, they will start robbing the elderly for their pain medications, robbing drug stores trying to get drugs, purse snatchings, etc. Anything to get their ‘meds’.

So, but this is our problem even though we don’t use drugs.

[SwinneySwitch]

U.S. Consulate & Ports Of Entry Remain On High Alert

http://www.ktsm.com/news/us-consulate-ports-of-entry-remain-on-high-alert

[Arrowhead1952]

I don’t doubt the administration wants something like this so he can declare martial law.

[TigersEye]

0bama is a terrorist.

0bama Arms Mexican Drug Cartels and MS13 in Honduras

Over 1,400 ATF-walked guns are still “walking” around Mexico. At least another 200 “walked” into Honduras. When will the next one show up at a murder scene and where? Hizbollah is very active in Mexico so it's easy to conceive that they may be the ones carrying "Gunwalker" guns at one of the massacres to come.

Gunwalker: Smoking Gun Email?

An internal ATF email seems to support the assertion that Fast and Furious was a PR stunt for gun control.

PJM’s Bob Owens has long speculated that the primary reason for Operation Fast and Furious was to perpetuate the lie that 90 percent of illegal firearms in Mexico were from the United States.

Owens’ assertion was buoyed on Wednesday by internal ATF emails obtained by Townhall.com. One email reads:

"Can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same FfL and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks Mark R. Chait Assistant Director Field Operations."

[Munz]

Good thing that the FBI and Justice department armed them then with taxpayer money eh???

[Munz]

>0bama is a terrorist.<

he is certainly providing aid to terrorists and enemies of the state.

Not only was his administration allowing these people to get guns who now are an official “threat” he helped fund it with stimulus money!

Anyone think this is not bigger than Watergate yet???

[TigersEye]

Watergate is like stealing a pack of gum at the corner store compared to this.

[Munz]

Oh .. I didn’t say Watergate .. I said Waterloo!

Much more appropriate IMO